“I don’t have any information,” he said. “We’re expecting to hear back in the next few days.

“Until we get more details we haven’t planned a course of action,” he said when asked if Suzuki Australia is working on a fix for whatever the problem may be.

“We haven’t received any information based on what it may be,” he said.

To hold the sale of a product on the open market indicates a serious problem, and any implication relating to airbags is enough to make a manufacturer wince in the wake of the Takata airbag scandal, which has affected more than 53 million vehicles worldwide and allegedly lead to the deaths of at least six people and injuries to hundreds.

Suzuki itself is likely still feeling the sales impact of a recent stop-sale on the Celerio small hatchback, which was pulled from sale after just days on showroom floors due to a problem with the braking system.